Bibliograph

Catherine the Great, love, sex and power, Virginia Rounding

Type

Label

Catherine the Great, love, sex and power, Virginia Rounding

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-552) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Catherine the Great

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

76871519

Responsibility statement

Virginia Rounding

Sub title

love, sex and power

Summary

A portrait of the late-eighteenth-century Russian ruler discusses how she seized and kept the throne in spite of her illegitimate claim and a series of wars, rebellions, and plagues, tracing how she rendered Russia a major European power

Table Of Contents

From Feudal Anthill to the Court of Russia -- Engagement and wedding -- Early married life -- Catherine grows up -- Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Stanislas Poniatowski -- Empress of all the Russias -- Murder, coronation and conspiracy -- Catherine sets to work -- Laws, smallpox and war -- The heroic Orlov -- Confusion and unrest -- Passion and pretenders -- New lovers and a new daughter-in-law -- Grandsons and other acquisitions -- The empress and the emperor -- The failures of physicians -- Convalescence and recovery -- The great Crimean Voyage, and 'proverbs' in Petersburg -- The beginning of the end -- Last years -- Death and burial

Target audience

adult

Classification